Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. weekly jobless claims fall; consumer spending declines in November
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, though remaining elevated as more businesses face restrictions and consum...
Dec 23, 2020
COVID testing chaos infuriates stranded truckers in English port
By Ben Makori and Gerhard Mey DOVER, England (Reuters) - Truck drivers trapped along hundreds of miles of roads near the southern English port of Dover are facing a riddle: to travel to France they mu...
Dec 23, 2020
Futures rise ahead of weekly unemployment data
By Devik Jain and Ambar Warrick (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose slightly on Wednesday as investors appeared to have shrugged off President Donald Trump's threat to not sign a COVID-19 stimul...
Dec 23, 2020
Special Report-Challenging police violence … while Black
By Andrea Januta, Andrew Chung, Jaimi Dowdell and Lawrence Hurley (Reuters) - Luke Stewart was sleeping in his car in Euclid, Ohio, when police came upon him. Moments later, he lay dying from gunshot ...
Dec 23, 2020
Google told its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research – documents
By Paresh Dave and Jeffrey Dastin OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists' papers by launching a "sensitive topics" review, and in at l...
Dec 23, 2020
Amazon to face U.S. union push in year ahead
By Jeffrey Dastin and Krystal Hu (Reuters) - In 2021, Amazon.com Inc is poised to face a renewed challenge from groups it has long countered: unions. Energized by protests at Amazon's U.S. warehouses ...
Dec 23, 2020
With U.S. Senate at stake, Black voters loom large for Democratic candidates in Georgia
By Joseph Ax and Rich McKay ATLANTA (Reuters) - With hundreds of millions of dollars pouring into twin Jan. 5 Georgia runoff elections to determine control of the U.S. Senate, Democrats and a constell...
Dec 23, 2020
Explainer-U.S. vaccine rollout’s next challenge: Verifying who is ‘essential’
By Tina Bellon and Melissa Fares (Reuters) - As U.S. industries push for their workers to receive early access to COVID-19 vaccines, local health departments and pharmacies face the challenge of verif...
Dec 23, 2020
Global cargo logjam deepens, delaying goods bound for retailers, automakers
By Lisa Baertlein and Jonathan Saul LOS ANGELES/LONDON (Reuters) - Amazon seller Bernie Thompson shifted half of his production out of China to reduce his business risks and still found himself in the...
Dec 23, 2020
In pandemic America’s tent cities, a grim future grows darker
By Michelle Conlin PHOENIX, Ariz. (Reuters) - Nadeen Bender stood outside her home, a tattered two-man tent, surrounded by the re-purposed Amazon Prime boxes she uses to store her life's belongings. O...
Dec 23, 2020
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